"After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day."
"There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein."
"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer."
"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."
"Religion is the opium of the poor"
"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."